Oberjude
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Oberjude is an anti-Semitic term used to describe prominent Jews or representatives of Jewish communities and organizations with offensive, humiliating, or defamatory intent. The expression is also used outside the German language area. Used in the plural, it is mostly related to an alleged Jewish world conspiracy.
History[edit]
Jewish Class Society in Bohemia in the 17th and 18th centuries[edit]
In the 1940s and 1950s, historian Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein, in her research on the Jews in Bohemia,[1] found evidence that not only Christian but also Jewish society in rural Bohemia in the 17th and 18th centuries was divided into classes. This finding, derived from the analysis of data from a census of 1724, contrasts with the general assumption that Jewish societies in Central and Eastern Europe had a social and economic structure, but no class structure. In the sources examined by Kestenberg, certain Jews, who in their own opinion belonged to a higher class, were described as "Oberjude" or "Oberjüdin" ("chief Jew" or "chief Jewess"), others, whom they regarded as their Jewish subjects, were accordingly referred to as "Unterjude" ("Sub-Jews").[2][not in citation given]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kestenberg-Gladstein, Ruth (1955-04-01). "Differences of Estates within Pre-Emancipation Jewry". Journal of Jewish Studies. 6 (1): 35–49. doi:10.18647/174/JJS-1955.
- ↑ "Journal of Jewish Studies - AboutUs". www.jjs-online.net. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
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